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by apwheele 9mo ago
The such low royalties make folks seriously consider self-publishing if you think you can get any sales. (And if you do not need a copy-editor.) So I have only around 150 sales of my book (see notes at https://andrewpwheeler.com&
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We don't know what causes wide spread crime trends(crimede-coder.com)
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by apwheele 10mo ago
Yeah ditto. I don't know when it happened, but the Coursera courses I tried at first (around 2012 I think?) were very high quality -- I thought it was clearly a competitor to traditional brick and mortar. Then a few years later, checke
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by apwheele 10mo ago
Do folks have opinions on the quality of the recent books? Last one I picked up was not good (good chance it is partially AI slop). Read online (and not in the app), but the copy-editing did not do it any favors, and then how code snippets
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Why Boulder PD transitioned to encrypted radios(dailycamera.com)
4 points by apwheele 10mo ago|0 comments
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Text as a "Market for Lemons"(win-vector.com)
2 points by apwheele 10mo ago|0 comments
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by apwheele 10mo ago
When you want to run stuff client side instead of your server is one question to determine. For R specifically, it is focused on stats/graphing. So if you wanted an app where someone could upload data and fit a complicated regression m
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A graph is worth 1000 tables(crimede-coder.com)
3 points by apwheele 11mo ago|0 comments
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No sales after midnight: The impact of business curfew on crime in tenderloin(link.springer.com)
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by apwheele 11mo ago
I used quarto for my book as well and have a write up, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/07/02/some-notes-on-self-pub... One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have different fonts and formatting niceties
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by apwheele 11mo ago
I don't know what NIST says, but for the tests that use Chi-square, you can look at the left tail. Basically tests that have very small Chi-square values are "too close" to the expected distribution. This is how Fisher critiq
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by apwheele 11mo ago
For the more specific part that the PD states it does not physically save the data locally, I do work with cities Police departments and Flock will integrate with the local record management system. I suspect they probably do have the data
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by apwheele 11mo ago
This is very obnoxious when transferring documents from Gemini to google docs (and not just math, tables/code sections are often not transferred correctly as well). I have a javascript hack from the dev console where I can at least pri
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What to show in your tech resume?(andrewpwheeler.com)
3 points by apwheele 11mo ago|0 comments
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by apwheele 11mo ago
For a demo of this (although not sure with duckdb wasm that it works with iceberg) https://andrewpwheeler.com/2025/06/29/using-duckdb-wasm-clou...
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by apwheele 11mo ago
I do remember 1 example of an emoji in tech docs before all of this -- learning github actions (which based on my blog happened in 2021 for me, before ChatGPT release), at one point they had an apple emoji at the final stage saying "d
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Five LLM Tricks for Data Pipelines(presentofcoding.substack.com)
2 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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by apwheele 1y ago
Can folks comment on what applications they use k-means for? It was a basic technique I learned in school, but honestly I am not really familiar with a single use case that is very clearly motivated besides "pretty pictures". So I
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I translated my book for $7 using OpenAI(andrewpwheeler.com)
2 points by apwheele 1y ago|1 comments
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Recording your mouse and keyboard with Python(andrewpwheeler.com)
1 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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Crypto backed data storage – pay once, store forever(ardrive.io)
1 points by apwheele 1y ago|2 comments
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by apwheele 1y ago
You might reach out to the folks at the Institute for Justice, they have written letters to the cities to get the cameras taken down in these scenarios, https://ij.org/press-release/victory-arkansas-city-moves-sur...
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I scraped the Crime solutions site(andrewpwheeler.com)
3 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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How We Integrated FormAssembly into Drupal and Curtailed Spam Submissions(medium.com)
1 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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The "Rainey Street Ripper": An Independent Analysis of the Evidence(digital.library.txst.edu)
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ChatGPT 5 marginalizing Gelman's measurement error model in Stan(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
1 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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by apwheele 1y ago
Oh nice, thank you for that tip. I was doing the opposite, `new_obj = mod.Class(...)` and then assigning the dicts from the old object (which was when I realized the pickle save/load was easier).
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Deep Research and Open Access(andrewpwheeler.com)
1 points by apwheele 1y ago|0 comments
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Reloading Classes in Python(andrewpwheeler.com)
31 points by apwheele 1y ago|6 comments
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Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime(ericmjl.github.io)
157 points by apwheele 1y ago|77 comments

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